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WILLIAM CLEMENT WATKINS, OF FAIRFIELD, ILLINOIS.

GRAIN MEASURER AND TALLY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,046, dated November 20, 1888.

Application filed June 27, 1888. Serial No. 278,338.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CLEMENT WATKINS, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Fairfield, in the county of Wayne and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Grain-Measurers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a grain'measurer, having for its object to provide a simple, cheap, accurate, and readily-operated device whereby the grain as it is delivered from the discharge-spout of a thrashing-machine will be elevated, measured, and deposited in suitable sacks by the power derived from the thrashing-machine.

The invention consists in a certain novel construction and combination of devices, fully set forth hereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a front view of a grain measure embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through the slide. Fig. 4 is a side view, partly in section, to show the grain-elevator and the devices for operating the same.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the frame of the device, which may be mounted on suitable trucks, or provided with other means to enable it' to be readily transported from place to place with the thrashing machine, and over the frame is arranged the awning B, designed to protect the grain'as it is measured from flying dust and other impurities.

0 represents the elevator, provided at its upper and lower ends, respectively, with the pulleys c c, on which runs the elevator-belt D, and d is an opening atthe lower end of the elevator adapted to receive the grain from the discharge end of the thrashing machine, whence it is carried by the belt to the upper end of the elevator. The upper pulley, c, is arranged on a horizontal shaft, E, to which is affixed the power-pulley E, which derives power from the pulley f (affixed to the augershaft of the thrashing-machine) through the medium of the belt F.

As the grain passes to the upper end of the elevator, it is discharged into the chute G, in which is arranged the pivoted lever-valve H,

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and under the lower end of the chute, on a suitable elevated platform, I, are arranged the measures L L. (Preferably half-bushel measures.) When the valve H is inclined toward one side of the chute,communication is opened with one of the dischargespouts 9, so that the grain passes into the measure under that spout, and when the valve is inclined in the other direction the above-named dischargespout is closed and communication is opened with the other spout, whereby the grain is directed therethrough to the other measure. The measures are provided with conical bottoms, having the openings g g in their centers, and under the measures is arranged the cut-off slide M, which is adapted to move longitudinally, and is provided with the openings m m, adapted to register alternately with one of the openings 9 in the measures. openings m m are arranged closer together than the openings 9 9, whereby only one of the pairs of openings can register at the same time, and therefore at one limit of the movement of the slide the opening in the bottom of one of the measures is opened to allow the escape of the grain contained therein and the other measure is closed and in condition to be filled, and at the other limit of the movement of the slide the opening in the bottom of the lastnamed measure is open to allow the escape of the grain and the first named measure is closed to enable it to be filled.

The operating lever or handle N is-pivoted on a convenient portion of the frame, and is The slide, whereby the latter may be moved to open and close the measures, and the connecting-arm O is affixed at its lower end to the slide and at its upper end to the lever-valve in the grain-chute, whereby as the slide is moved by the lever or handle to open one of the halfbushel measures the valve is turned to direct the grain to the other measure. Hooks P P are affixed to the under side of the elevated platform I around the openings in the bottoms of the measures, on which may be engaged the upper ends of the sacks to be filled.

Q represents a suitable register, which is provided with the lever q, and is adapted to be operated by drawing the said lever down ward. The figures of the register are changed as the lever is drawn downward, and the lever is automatically raised to its initial position by mechanism within the register. A

' cord or chain, R, is affixed at one end to the lever or handle N and extends horizontally and then vertically, and is connected to the lever of the register by the coiled spring S, whereby as the lever or handle is moved in one direction the register will register one bushel and as it is moved in the other direction the lever of the register will return to its initial position, in readiness to register a second bushel.

It will be observed that half-bushel measures are employed, so that both measures must be filled and emptied to measure one bushel, and therefore the register which only registers bushels is operated only on each alternate movement of the'lever or handle.

The operation ofthe device will be readily understood from the foregoing. The sacks being arranged under the measures, the grain is elevated and discharged into one of the measures, (the bottom of which is closed,) and when it has become full the lever or handle is moved, thereby opening the bottom of thefull movement of the lever or handle causes the register to register one bushel.

Having described my invention, I elain1- As an improvement in grain -tallies, the combination of the frame A, the elevator mounted therein at one side of the same, the platform I arranged within the frame to one side of the elevator, the chute mounted in the frame adjacent to the upper end of the elevator and extending downward laterally from the same, the lever valve pivoted within the chute, the measures arranged under the chute and having conical bottoms provided with eeir tral openings, the slide arranged in the platform and having openings adapted to register with the openings in the bottoms of the measures, the openings in the slide being nearer together than the openings in the measures, the

arm 0, secured at one end to the slide and at V its lower end to the lever-valve, the lever N, pivoted in the frame, projecting forward therefrom, and pivotally connected to the slide, the register having a lever, q, and the rope connecting the lever N and the lever q, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signatu re in presence of two witnesses.

\Vl LLIAM' CLEMENT WATKINS.

XVitnesses:

E1) E. SHEPARD, J ASPER HAwtrnoRN. 

